Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 7

Leftist Reading

Episode 43:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

Confent warnings this episode for:
Sexual assault
Murder

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7 - This Week]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN
Reading - 00:37
Discussion - 25:31

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12 - 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
1) 01:26
DuBois, Darkwater, p. 113.

2) 02:18
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 228.

3) 04:07
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, p. 747. “Tenant Farming in Alabama, 1889” from The Journal of Negro Education XVII (1948), pp. 46ff.

4) 04:46
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, p. 689. Texas State Convention of Negroes, 1883.

5) 05:15
Ibid., p. 690.

6) 05:37
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, p. 704. Founding Convention of Afro-American League, 1890.

7) 05:54
DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, p. 698.

8) 06:16
Ibid.

9) 06:45
Ibid., p. 699.

10) 06:57
Ibid., p. 698.

11) 08:20
Aptheker, A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States, Vol. 1 (Secaucus, N.J.: The Citadel Press, 1973), p. 46. “A Southern Domestic Worker Speaks,”The Independent, Vol. LXXII (January 25, 1912).

12) 08:42
Ibid., p. 46.

13) 09:05
Ibid., p. 47.

14) 09:20
Ibid., p. 50.

15) 10:20
Ibid.

16) 10:50
Ibid., p. 49.

17) 11:16
Ibid.

18) 11:42
Ibid.

19) 11:56
Ibid.

20) 12:14
Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 462. “The Colored Women’s Statement to the Women’s Missionary Council, American Missionary Association.”

21) 12:46
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, p. 49.

22) 13:28
DuBois, Darkwater, p. 116.

23) 13:52
Ibid., p. 115.

24) 14:05
Isabel Eaton, “Special Report on Negro Domestic Service” in W. E. B. DuBois, The Philadelphia Negro (New York: Schocken Books, 1967. First edition: 1899), p. 427.

25) 14:23
Ibid.

26) 14:47
Ibid., p. 428.

27) 15:03
Ibid.

28) 15:20
Ibid., p. 465.

29) 15:34
Ibid., p. 484.

30) 15:50
Ibid., p. 485.

31) 16:20
Ibid.

32) 17:00
Ibid., p. 484.

33) 17:45
Ibid., p. 449. Eaton presents evidence which “... points to the probability that among women in domestic service at least, there is no difference between ‘white pay and black pay,’ ...”

34) 18:43
Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 229–231. Louise Mitchell, “Slave Markets Typify Exploitation of Domestics,”The Daily Worker, May 5, 1940.

35) 18:58
Gerda Lerner, The Female Experience: An American Documentary (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977), p. 269.

36) 19:14
Ibid., p. 268.

37) 19:32
Wertheimer, op. cit., pp. 182–183.

38) 19:46
Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 232.

39) 22:00
Inez Goodman, “A Nine-Hour Day for Domestic Servants,”The Independent, Vol. LIX (February 13, 1902). Quoted in Baxandall et al., op. cit., pp. 213–214.

40) 23:29
Lerner, The Female Experience, p. 268.

41) 23:55
Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson, “Black Women in a Racist Society,”in Charles Willie et al., editors, Racism and Mental Health (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973), p. 236.

42) 24:44
Ibid.

43) 25:10
DuBois, Darkwater, p. 115.